knowed

Is made more imbecile by being constantly informed that Mrs. Green’s son “was a law-writer his-self and knowed him better than anybody,” which son of Mrs. Green’s appears, on inquiry, to be at the present time aboard a vessel bound for China, three months out, but considered accessible by telegraph on application to the Lords of the Admiralty.

1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Chapter XI”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC

"If I'd knowed she was going to do it I'd never have signed that there partnership she smoodged me into signing[.]"

1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 163

And it ain't no use in a-turning on yer light babe: the light I never knowed.

1962, Bob Dylan, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, Verse II

[Carla Jean, to Chigurh about to kill her:] I knowed you was crazy when I seen you settin there, she said. I knowed exactly what was in store for me. Even if I couldnt of said it. [sic]

2005, Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men, →ISBN, page 179